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Birthday
Оглавление– Hans, why is your finger bandaged like that? Have you cut yourself?
– No, sir, this is for a memo!
– For what memo? Couldn’t you set a reminder in the alarm system?
– The system isn’t working, sir.
– Do you mean, it kicked the bucket?
– Yes, sir!
– But why didn’t you report it properly?
– I tried to fix the leak first, sir!
– Are we leaking?
– Yes, sir!
– But why didn’t you turn on an emergency system, a pump, a generator?
– We no longer have the emergency system!
– We don’t? What happened to it?
– It was blown off by a meteorite.
– But have you reported to the base that we had an accident?
– No, sir, I haven’t!
– Why not?
– Our transmitter is not working! Besides, we are in another galaxy. The signal does not pass! Nothing is operational!
– And you’ve bandaged your finger for a memo?
– Yes, sir!
– In order not to forget about something else, perhaps, something important?
– Yes, sir!
– I wonder what that could be? What sort of mess can possibly happen to me yet?
– Your birthday, sir!
